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“In the ancient notion of love, on the other hand, there is an element of anxiety. The noble fears the descent to the less noble, is afraid of being infected and pulled down. The “sage” of antiquity does not have the same firmness, the same inner certainty of himself and his own value, as the genius and hero of Christian love.”
Max Scheler (1874–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 92
“People are told over and over, "Don't vote your values. Vote your fears." But what we got was everything we were afraid of.”
Jill Stein (born 1950) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Two-Party System Is Killing Democracy," May 23, 2016
“Don’t be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragments of death, forms of unbecoming. A fighter clings to life, and therefore cannot win. A warrior treats life and death as the same thing, and therefore cannot lose.”
Steven Barnes (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At first I didn’t like fielding because I was afraid of the ball hitting me but with time, I over came my fears and I can now field, bat and ball because it’s required as a team player.”
Cathia Uwamahoro (born 1993) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Meet the faces behind Rwanda’s flourishing women cricket (21 August 2013)
“Devote yourself to an idea. Go make it happen. Struggle on it. Overcome your fears. Smile, don't forget, this is your dream. People will laugh at your dreams but in a few years they will ask how you did it. Don't be afraid to think outside the box! I didn't even know there was a box”
John Dumelo (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is of two kinds, viz., natural or rational fear, when there is a threatening situation to endanger life; and unnatural or unusual fear which has no objective reality.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something, and thereby become diminished and be less. These two movements obscure the fact that being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, now. (Ch 5)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing irritates us [Fascists] so much as to be taken for pillars of order. Nothing so exasperates us as the people who come to us through fear of Communism. Those good people [who are fearful of all social change] will have to realize, and we shall soon make them realize, that the weight of the social problem is now on our shoulders and that they would be wiser to fear us than to fear Communism.”
Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreign Policy Congress in Milan, June 1938. Quoted in "The decline of the intellectual" - Page 189 - by Thomas Molnar - 1994.
“Who causes war? War is caused by our primal fear of not surviving. This is a two-sex fear. And because the fear is so primal, we are easily seduced into exaggerating the evil intent of anyone [who] might threaten our survival. Why? One mistake of underestimating a threat could leave everyone wiped out; many mistakes of overestimating would just leave men wiped out.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reconquer the streets, the markets – the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.”
Jens Stoltenberg (born 1959) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: City Hall Square speech (25 July 2011), as quoted in the Aftenposten
“Art and nature are imitations, not of each other, but of the same third thing both images of the real, the spectral and vivid reality that employs all means. If we fear it in art, we fear it in nature, and our fear brings it on ourselves in the most unanswerable ways. (p 26)”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face... .”
Lady Gaga (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.”
J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, yeah, I'm scared. If you don't have fear then you are not taking a chance. But what I do have is a team. If your collaborators are there, which is what answers the fear question, and they all are as impassioned as you are, and believe in it, then your fear is mitigated.”
Julie Taymor (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927)
“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No wonder without fear, no fear without wonder—that’s the rule for the cosmic weird tale and also the compensation for the pains of fear, the jewel in the toad’s head.”
Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you fear the gods will destroy you?” That disturbing smile again. “That is not a fear. That is a prayer.” “Or…do you fear their punishment? That they would plunge your soul into some eternal torment?” Wencel leaned forward, up on his toes. “That,” he breathed in Ingrey’s ear, “would be redundant.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mr. Trump may talk a big game on trade, but his approach is based on fear, not strength. Fear that we can’t compete with the rest of the world even when the rules are fair. Fear that our country has no choice but to hide behind walls.”
Hillary Clinton (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.”
Dean Koontz (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle.”
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Courage to Be Happy (1957)
“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you. Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.”
Edward Yashinsky first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lookstein, Haskel: "Were We Our Brother's Keepers?" New York: 1985.
“I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.”
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the book, the appeal is to their fear glands... the fear of not getting re-elected. The fear of being challenged in a primary inside their own party... The greed glands were approached by the lobbyists, who tried to turn this mass movement of the people of our country to take control of Congress... They poured campaign money into their stalwarts...”
Ralph Nader (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Becoming more callous and hardened when God thunders verbally from heaven, they obstinately persist in their rebellion. It is only when actually smitten by his hand that they are forced, whether they will or not, to fear. This fear the sacred writers term servile, and oppose to the free and voluntary fear which becomes sons.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him. ("Husband-Right and Father-Right" 1977)”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear for the Other, fear for the other man's death is my fear, but is in no way an individual's taking fright.”
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you face your fear, you become familiar with it, and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip - fear ceases to be fear.”
Gulzar (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You cannot look within, or rather, you refuse to. You fear to. So all of your manipulation of the exterior is ultimately meaningless, because it is devoid of any examined motivation. You seek to change your environment because you fear to gaze at that which makes you want to change it, because you fear that you may have to change yourself.”
Malcolm Azania (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
John the Evangelist (10–98) said by 98 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When she looked around, she saw the same expression of mindless fear in the eyes of the men with her. They were all in the same boat—carried forward by habits of training, minds blank with fear hence too stupid to sensibly turn and run. It was this stupor of fear that would later be counted as courage.”
Karl Schroeder (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Q: What can I do to overcome my fear of death? A: Attachment to the body causes fear of death. It is the strongest attachment. Even a newborn infant has this attachment. To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He stood unmoving, wondering at his own abrupt and incomprehensible inability to act. He did not fear damnation. Nor did he give a fig for the common opinion of Mankind. There was nothing to stop him but fear alone—fear that his reasoning was wrong.”
Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear? I believe that fear and lack of fear form a contradiction. The point is to take up our ideology, and unleash the courage within us. It is our ideology that makes us brave, that gives us courage. In my opinion, no one is born brave. It is society, the class struggle, that makes people and communists courageous--the class struggle, the proletariat, the Party, and our ideology.”
Abimael Guzmán (1934–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lesson learned is: ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check, it will breed destruction.”
Daryl Davis (born 1958) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dancing with the Devil by Bob Massey, Special to The Washington Post, Sunday, July 5, 1998
“The lie we are told is that white rage and white fear are honest emotions that preserve the integrity of American democracy. More often than not, we keep learning that white rage and white fear are dishonest impulses that lead us toward fascism. White rage and white fear are reactions to perceptions among white people that their power might be slipping away.”
Brittney Cooper (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest lesson life has taught me is to fear God. Once you fear God you will approach everything in life with the fear of God, therefore you wouldn’t do what you are not supposed to do.”
Kofoworola Bucknor (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I try to shun all sorts of fear because, like I said, I don’t joke with my spirituality as a person, and biblically speaking, when you fear, you attract it...so I live a very happy life, and fear is not something I entertain.”
Sammy Gyamfi (born 1989) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Favour Adeaga, "Sammy Gyamfi biography: age, early life, education, wife, latest", Yen, 28 November 2022
“It's difficult to always keep the door open, it's not easy. There is also fear, but we don't remove fear, we face it. How many times in this office have they pointed a revolver at me... But only through hospitality, through listening, through availability, generosity, can fear be overcome.”
Andrea Gallo (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is a normal reaction, and even priests and those in religious life will also experience fear, but fear can lead us to a deeper faith, it turns into a deeper trust in God if we allow God to be part of the journey.”
Raymond Francis Chappetto (born 1945) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cancer Patients Pray in Honor of St. Peregrine During Mass of Healing (9 May 2024) Current News
“I think women need to remove the fear of science and the fear of a male dominated workplace. If somebody tells you “it’s not for women,” remove that fear, it’s not difficult. Like anything else, when you work at it, you can make it.”
Tebello Nyokong (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do I write? Out of fear. For fear that the memory of the lives of the people I write about will be lost. For fear that the memory of me will be lost. Or even just to be protected by a story, to slip into a story and no longer be recognisable, controllable, blackmailable.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we're looking for such an easy form of self-affirmation, then as a culture we know nothing of actual fear, existential fear, fear that keeps us aligned with that oblivion that is the counterpoint of genuine love.”
Alex Jovanovich (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The origin of most neurotic fears can be traced to childhood. The seeds of fear may lie dormant in childhood in the subconscious mind. They sprout forth after some time during some period of crisis or stress.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God bestows perfect security on His devotees and removes all sorts of fears. He transforms the sense of insecurity and fear into one of confidence and faith. He saves him from panic and despair.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source